It is particularly irksome, since I have duly informed Sprint / Nextel of this fact twice a year, every year, since 2007.

Yes, I know I could change the option to take my cell phone off of network server time, and rely on its internal time clock. Unfortunately, the cell phone then lags a minute or two eventually, since it is not synched with a reliable time source.

For $100+ a month, Sprint can find somebody with a clue to update the time zone data on their time servers!

If anybody reads this post and has any contacts at Sprint that can resolve this, please feel free to contact me.

If C can detect that we are in the context of a canvas page, and Facebook already knows that B will not wait more than X seconds, they might as well issue an HTTP 408 Request Timeout or something similar after X seconds, because there's no real point in them giving me the info they aren't going to wait for...

I went ahead and created a Feature Request in Facebook's Bugzilla. You can vote for it if you think it will help you.#5528

Saturday, February 14, 2009

So the other day, I had to go down and file for a home owner's exemption on my house.

I got my little queue ticket #96. They were calling out #32, with 5 or 6 workstations.

I had a half hour, max, to get this done, before I had to be elsewhere.

This did not look good...

Thank God for Lumni I. Likovski, Manager, Taxpayer Exemptions.

He was out in the waiting area, checking for people who didn't need a full-blown computer workstation (such as myself) and doing "triage" to get us the forms we needed, get our questions answered, and get us out of there.

He even cheerfully (and I stress cheerfully) photocopied my Driver's License for me, a requirement to hand in the form.

It's not often in this day and age that you get excellent service/help like this, most especially from government staff.

So I'm dedicating this blog post to LUMNI I LIKOVSKI down that at Cook County. I owe you a beer!

PSI tried to just send in a comment to his boss using their online form, but it blows up like this, every time I try to submit it: